Charlotte Verity is an artist who has honed a lucid and highly specific visual process to attain truth in her work. Fastidious observation is at the heart of her practice. In contrast to the fleeting nature of her subjects, the paintings develop slowly and have a suggestion of deep space and the wider world.
Whilst she has undertaken residencies and projects elsewhere, most notably a year-long residency at the Garden Museum, her garden in south east London and now Somerset has been and remains the focus of her work. For decades, she has immersed herself in it either by painting and drawing out of doors or by bringing elements of it into her studio to observe. With this practical restraint she has cultivated a deep knowledge and intimate respect for the forms that she depicts, and in this way, the paintings track the seasons and the passing of time. They become meditations on broader themes.
Since graduating from the Slade she has exhibited regularly in London since 1980, and in solo and group shows nationally and internationally throughout.
Portrait by Sophie Davidson, 2022
| 1954 | Born in Germany, RAF Wegberg |
| 1973-77 | Slade School of Fine Art, London |
| 1977 | Awarded, Slade Prize and Boise Travel Scholarship |
| 1978 | Fellowship, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham |
| 1995 | Artist in residence, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne |
| 2001- | Teaching, Royal Drawing School, London |
| 2010 | Artist in residence, Garden Museum, London |
| 2011 | Portrait commission, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London |
| 2016 | A monograph, Charlotte Verity, published by Ridinghouse |
| 2021 | Echoing Green: The Printed Year, published by Ridinghouse |
| 2024 | Lives and works in Somerset |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | Echoing Green, Karsten Schubert, Room 2, London |
| 2019 | The Seasons' Ebb, New Art Centre, Wiltshire |
| 2018 | In Their Garden, Garden Museum, London |
| 2016 | New Paintings, Purdy Hicks, London |
| 2015 | Midwinter Spring, Boat House Gallery, Flatford |
| 2012 | North House Gallery, Manningtree |
| 2011 | Garden Museum, London |
| 2007 | London Garden, Browse and Darby, London |
| 2002 | New Work, Browse and Darby, London |
| 1998 | Browse and Darby, London |
| 1990 | Anne Berthoud Gallery, London |
| 1988 | Anne Berthoud Gallery, London |
| 1984 | Anne Berthoud Gallery, London |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, The British Museum, London |
| 2023 | Display of gallery artists, Tom Rowland, London |
| 2022 | Kill or Cure, Wolfson College, Cambridge Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2021 | ATM21, Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Drawing Biennial 2021, The Drawing Room, London |
| 2020 | Rebooting Nature, Purdy Hicks, London |
| 2019 | Drawing Biennial 2019, The Drawing Room, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2018 | Cure3 (Cure Cubed), Bonhams, London The Artist's Garden, The Corn Hall, Diss The River Runs through Us, Boat House Gallery, Flatford Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2017 | Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Gli Amici Pittori di Londra, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo |
| 2016 |
Vital Signs, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa Drawings from the Royal Drawing School, Christie's, New York |
| 2015 |
Segni di Londra, Fondazione Bottari Lattes, Monforte d’Alba Summer Exhibition, Purdy Hicks, London Vital Signs, Clifford Chance Gallery, London |
| 2014 | Of Green Leaf, Bird & Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven |
| 2013 | Floriculture: Flowers, Love and Money, Garden Museum, London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (prize Winner) |
| 2012 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2010 | Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2009 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2007 | The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (invited artist) |
| 2005 | Raised Awareness, Tate Modern, London (touring) |
| 2004 | Charlotte Verity Paintings and Romilly Saumarez Smith Jewellery, Mile End Road, London |
| 2003 | The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (invited artist) |
| 2002 | Starting a Collection, Art First, London |
| 1999 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Equinox, The Cairn Gallery, Gloucestershire |
| 1993 | Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London |
| 1992 | Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1988 | The British Picture, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA A Personal Choice: Artists and Drawings Selected by Jeffery Camp, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
| 1987 | John Moores Exhibition 17, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Raab Gallery, Berlin |
| 1985 | Still Life, New Life, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston (touring) Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1983 | Drawings, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London |
| 1982 | Portraits and Self Portraits, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1981 | 3rd Tolly Cobbold National Exhibition Collected Works, Eastern Arts Association, Gainsborough’s House, Suffolk |
| 1980 | Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London John Moores Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Public Collections
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Arthur Anderson and Co. Arts Council of England British Museum Derby Museum and Art Gallery Deutsche Bank Eastern Arts Association Electra Investment Trust Garden Museum, London Government Art Collection Imperial Health Charity Art Collection, London Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Paintings in Hospitals, UK St. George’s Hospital, London Sir John Soane's Museum, London Stanhope Properties Tate Education Unilever University College London Westminster School |